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(The Root) — Don Cheadle and crew return tonight at 10 p.m. ET in the second-season premiere of House of Lies on Showtime. The show, which features Cheadle’s slick-talking character Marty Kaan as the head of a management-consultant firm, also stars Glynn Turman as his dad, Donis Leonard Jr. as his son and Josh Lawson…

(The Root) — The jobs crisis isn’t a story we left behind in 2012; as we enter the new year, employment is on everyone’s mind! In the third webisode of The Root Live, taped on Jan. 7, host Harriette Cole was joined by Dedrick Muhammad, executive director of the NAACP’s Financial Freedom Center; executive recruiter Volora Howell;…

(The Root) — Meagan Good jumps the broom from supporting player to leading lady in NBC’s new soapy thriller, Deception, which premieres Monday at 10 p.m. ET. The show features Good as undercover detective Joanna Locasto, who has returned to her hometown to investigate the death of her childhood friend. She’s joined in this effort…

(The Root) — Actress Gabrielle Union, NAACP President Ben Jealous and more are featured in the ASPiRE network’s The Root 100, a weekly series hosted by Suzanne Malveaux. In each episode, The Root’s Omar Wasow interviews a few of the 2012 honorees from The Root 100 2012 list about their roads to success and their…

(The Root) — Many people start out the new year with the best of intentions — getting out of debt, saving for a rainy day — but find themselves failing before they even begin. During the Monday, Dec. 17, webcast of The Root Live — an episode dedicated to achieving prosperity in 2013 — Washington Post…

(The Root) — Who doesn’t want tips for prosperity in the New Year? In the latest The Root Live webcast, which aired Monday, Dec. 17, host Harriette Cole tackled the topic with three experts: Teri Williams, president of OneUnited Bank; Harris Glasser, author of It’s My Money and I Want It; and Michelle Singletary, personal-finance…

In this clip from the Monday, Dec. 10, episode of The Root Live, our weekly livestream series sponsored by Prudential, host Harriette Cole chatted with Black Gives Back‘s Tracey Webb about black philanthropy. Watch the clip below to see what she had to say about which celebrities are the biggest givers. You might be surprised!…

Watch the video below for a sneak peek at what you’ll see when you tune in to The Root Live, our new weekly livestream series sponsored by Prudential, right here at noon on Monday, Dec. 17. Be sure to bring your questions, and tweet using our hashtag, #TheRootLive.

(The Root) — In the first episode of The Root Live, recorded on Dec. 10, 2012, host Harriette Cole interviewed Tracey Webb — founder of the blog Black Gives Back — and Morgan Stanley’s Michael Braithwaite, who hosts the radio show Money Talks, about the ins and outs of charitable giving. The weekly livestream series,…

(The Root) — On Thursday, Nov. 15, The Root celebrated the journalists, politicians, scholars, civil rights advocates and others who make up our 2012 list of stellar black influencers at our annual The Root 100 Gala. In lower Manhattan at the Tribeca Rooftop, notable guests stepped onto our trademark green carpet to share their thoughts…